Geek in Review: As a Matter of Fact, I Have Played Atari Today
“What’s that?”
“Oh, that’s my sword,” I said, pushing my little box against an arrow-shaped icon.
“What do you use it for?”
“Slaying Dragons!” I said, as I entered a once-simple maze of passages that the passage of time had made as vexing as it was when I was eight.
“You realize you’ve gone into that dead end five times, right?”
“Quiet you. This is how we did it back in the 80s.”
“You ran into the same dead end over and over again?”
“Yes, it was part of Reganomics.”